Hull Program Manager
Hull Program Manager
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05-10-2025
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Job Description
The Program Manager is responsible for leading the successful execution of complex shipbuilding programs from contract award through delivery. The Program Manager is a high-visibility leadership role responsible with the Chief Superintendent for ensuring the scope schedule cost and quality requirements are met in alignment with customer expectations contractual obligations and company objectives. The Program Manager serves as the primary customer interface coordinating across engineering planning supply chain production quality and program finance to drive program performance in a large high-paced shipyard environment. This position demands a highly proactive leader who has solid business acumen familiarity with business systems demonstrated ability to anticipate issues and strong communications skills.
Key Responsibilities
Project Execution:
- Lead cross-functional program teams through the phases of ship construction testing and delivery.
- Ensure adherence to contractual obligations program milestones and technical requirements.
- Proactively identify risks issues and opportunities; develop mitigation strategies and corrective actions.
- Work with Chief Superintendent to obtain committment of resources and to make trade-offs involving schedule cost performance and total program integration.
- Responsible for all changes to program objectives and/or performance targets.
Customer and Stakeholder Management
- Act as primary point of contact with the Navy and other stakeholders. Build strong working relationships with all stakeholders.
- Provide clear timely and professional communication on program performance risks and recovery actions.
Financial and schedule performance
- Drive key cost performance indicators (KPIs) to improve return on sales.
- Analyze financial data identify trends compare performance and cost drivers (fixed vs. variable).
- Use financial insights to make strategic choices that impact business performance staffing plans and execution manage inventory reduce costs and return on improvement investments.
- Develop manage and report on hull budgets including production and support labor and direct material costs.
- Manage and report on forecasts and earned value metrics.
- Monitor schedule adherence driving accountability across departments to maintain critical path.
- Ensure cost control measures and resource allocations align with program and company objectives.
- Approve use of Management Reserve (MR) budget.
Teamwork and Collaboration
- Coordinate efforts of diverse team to ensure program success.
- Promote a culture of safety quality and continuous process improvement across all program activities.
- Work with Navy counterparts to resolve disputes with trial cards corrective action requests and/or performance incentives.
- Anticipate problems. Proactively seek out the issues occurring on all other hulls. Put actions in place to address those issues with the least possible impact to your hull/building. Repeat issues from a previous hull should not occur.
- Utilize representatives from all the departments to achieve cost and schedule goals for the ship.
- Continuously identify and eliminate non-value-added activities and implement process improvements to enhance productivity and reduce cost. Document and manage these improvements through the Operational Performance Improvement Plan process.
- Make your commitments.
- Execute duties with passion vigor and integrity.
Continuous Improvement:
- Champion BIW Business Operating System principles and productivity enhancements.
- Streamline processes to improve safety quality and cost-efficiency.
Required/Preferred Education/Training
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Business Accounting Finance Naval Architecture or related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
- PMP or equivalent certification preferred.
Required/Preferred Experience
- 5-7 years progressive experience in shipbuilding heavy manufacturing or defense program management. Proven track record managing complex large-scale multi-year programs exceeding $100M; 10 years experience preferred.
- Deep understanding of shipyard operations naval architecture and marine systems integration.
- Solid proficiency in program management tools (Earned Value Management Integrated Master Schedules Risk Management).
- Strong financial acumen with ability to manage large budgets and drive cost and schedule performance.
- Demonstrated successful experience as a proactive project management leader. Evidence of being able to anticipate problems and take steps to resolve or avoid them. Ability to anticipate the next several steps of problem resolution.
- Excellent administrative skills: effective interpersonal skills demonstrated skills in the areas of verbal and written communication problem solving/decision making conflict resolution and organization required.
- Demonstrated understanding of LEAN manufacturing principles. Ability to actively participate in implementing and monitoring continuous improvement initiatives to improve safety and quality while reducing cycle time and costs.
- Exceptional people skills required. Demonstrated ability to get cooperation from manufacturing personnel engineering and support personnel in often high stress situations.
- Ability to represent BIWs position on various programmatic contractual and technical matters.
Ability to obtain a Security Clearance
- This position requires you to be able to obtain a government security clearance. You must be a US Citizen for consideration and you must be able to obtain an interim security clearance within the first 45 days of hire. For more information regarding the security clearance process please visit Investigations & Clearance Process
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
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